Silksong Nerfs Notorious Muckmaggots — Its Most Hated Areas Just Got A Lot Easier
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Silksong just dropped Patch 4 on PC, and it reads like a love letter to everyone who got chewed up by those silk-eating pests in the grimy endgame zones. Version 1.0.29242 is live, it leans hard on player feedback, and yes, the Muckmaggots finally got smacked with the nerf hammer.
Muckmaggots, meet your match
If you bounced off Bilewater or the Putrified Ducts because of those clingy little nightmares, this is the update you wanted. Muckmaggots inflict one of the game's nastiest status effects: they eat your silk, force you to bind to clear them, and because binding itself costs silk, you end up in a miserable loop. Two key changes break that cycle:
- The Wreath of Purity, the breakable tool that keeps Muckmaggots off you, now lasts longer. More durability, fewer mid-run meltdowns.
- Multibinder now clears Muckmaggots with its first bind, so the second bind can actually heal Hornet. Team Cherry says this tweak came from 'community comments,' which, yeah, tracks.
Player feedback is clearly getting through
It is not just bug-smashing and balance numbers. Team Cherry also folded in a new Simplified Chinese translation that started life as a fan mod by Team Cart Fit. They did not just take it; they endorsed it:
'well-versed in the (quite dense) narrative and lore of both Hollow Knight games.'
That is a rare studio move and a good one.
Balance passes and quality-of-life tweaks
Beyond the big Muckmaggot swing, Patch 4 cleans up a bunch of edges:
- Rumble now works with more controllers.
- Binding is quicker when using Multibinder with the Shaman's crest.
- Thread Storm, arguably Hornet's best Silk Skill, got a small buff: subsequent hits deal slightly more damage.
- Couriers will not offer you the same delivery twice in a row anymore.
- Gurr the Outcast is meaner now; he stays still for less time, so you get fewer free hits.
Should you jump back in?
If Bilewater or the Putrified Ducts convinced you to take a break, this patch is basically a handwritten invite back to Pharloom. The worst offenders are toned down, the good stuff hits a little harder, and the whole thing feels more responsive.
One last thing for the lore sickos
There is also a new fan-made lore cut that condenses all of Silksong, including a cut ending, into a breezy 77 minutes. Or, as the creator put it: 'THE SACRED TEXTS ARE HERE.'